Category Archives: Commerce and Services

Kickass use of techmology. If you love cholesterol and are a freakin idiot.

By Clay Newton | Published: July 9, 2009

My life has been enriched, just like the chips are enriched with MSG.

Pimping out your Facebook Page

By Clay Newton | Published: June 15, 2009

This is a really great video with Caitlin O'Farrell (Facebook's consumer marketing manager). There are some great tips here for brands to focus on. One of the tips in it directs you to Facebook for Influencers. This is the de facto "resource for how to build your presence on Facebook and engage your audience." A superhot [...]

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Awesome App Store Hyperwall

By Clay Newton | Published: June 9, 2009

I wish I'd been there, because this visualization of the App Store is pretty friggin' cool. What you see below is just a subset of the actual spectacle: twenty 30" cinema displays with a chromatic array of App Store icons. As apps are purchased on the App Store, the icon pulsates on these displays. It's [...]

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Smashing Magazine’s Mobile Design Trends for 2009

By Clay Newton | Published: January 15, 2009

In typical Smashing Magazine fashion, their recent post on contemporary mobile design trends is both comprehensive and thoughtful. I won't go into it too deep, but here are the trend highlights: Simple options White space Lack of images Sub-domains instead of .mobi or separate domains Prioritized content They go further to outline common challenges: Variety [...]

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GOOG’s SearchWiki double standard

By Clay Newton | Published: December 5, 2008

November 22, 2008 Google launched a somewhat controversial new feature: SearchWiki: This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. We have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some time through live experiments, and [...]

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Did you know Fb is not a social network?

By Clay Newton | Published: September 16, 2008

As per their homepage, Facebook is a "Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you." OK that seems pretty clear … but what is a social utility, and what’s the difference between that and a socnet?? There is a really interesting post over at TechCrunch about PackRat and the fake [...]

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bit.ly launched today

By Clay Newton | Published: July 8, 2008

I found out from a quick @marshallk tweet that bit.ly launched today. I have been using Tweetburner almost exclusively for the last few months. It’s been fabulous, but I have been experiencing some lost stats and some serious latency of late, leaving me looking for more. Things that I find very attractive about bit.ly: click [...]

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Velocity of Twitter versus Vox and LiveJournal

By Clay Newton | Published: April 30, 2008

Between the guy getting saved by Twitter, and a good showing at SXSW this year, Twitter’s been getting some very positive attention lately. In the background there are two services that I don’t usually compare to Twitter: Vox and LiveJournal. I think they are interesting services to compare to Twitter, largely because they are both [...]

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Twitter, Pownce and FriendFeed

By Clay Newton | Published: April 5, 2008

Michael Parekh just tweeted about his recent Compete chart: FriendFeed just overtook Pownce. Twitter is rockin’ hard. Pownce has remained more or less flat since the beginning of the year. Interesting stuff. Notice above I instinctively linked to Michael’s FriendFeed stream. I think this is a really important thing to note because linking to the [...]

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This tastybit: Finally got Skitch; using Mondrianum; Adobe’s kuler

By Clay Newton | Published: February 5, 2008

I finally got Skitch, and since I am using it, I figure it’s a good opportunity to show off some other awesomeness. I installed Mondrianum, which is a really great tool for color palettes that bolts on top of the standard OSX color picker. Look how nice that is. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It bolts [...]

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